Antique Folk Art Oval Frame with Much Flourish! lotto game On the backside is paper

On the backside is paper stamp dated 1916

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About a year ago I found and sold another painting by self-taught artist Charles Rabin (1897-1983)--that one of an interior with  woman in orange dress holding a potted plant (which I completely fell in love with

Antique Folk Art Oval Frame with Much Flourish! lotto game On the backside is paperA Pennsylvania German tramp art frame, I presume, feeling to me to nod a bit to Black Forest or at least those corner flourishes make me think of Black Forest cuckoo clocks, and the carved disks at the corners of hex stars, too. Very much the right frame for a portrait of one's mother or grandmother or most beloved and feeling as if ready to carry them to Heaven, if they're not there already! 10 3 8" t x 8 1 2" w. Frame sight: 3 1 4" x 2". Excellent